Starnes Dot Com - Latest Comments

Re: Starnes Dot Com: Book Preview No. 4: 77 Tips For A Grown-Up Man

kurtstarnes — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:57:48 -0000

Hi David:

Thanks for taking the time to read and comment on these book posts. While the book is brief, I think it has broken the ice for future writings. I continue to learn how to best express what's in my thoughts — easier said that done!

Best To You,

Kurt

Re: Starnes Dot Com: Book Preview No. 4: 77 Tips For A Grown-Up Man

David Keyston — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:35:52 -0000

well said. I know who I wish to share your book with. Thank you.

Re: Starnes Dot Com: Book Preview No. 2: Tips For A Grown-Up Man

David Keyston — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:31:32 -0000

I only ever heard my parents use the the word "damn", and that was only once...

Re: Starnes Dot Com: Book Preview No. 1: Tips For A Grown-Up Man

David Keyston — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:28:10 -0000

Holding a door open for a woman, in some ways, is almost a lost art. I was raised that way and (usually) opened the door for my wives, girlfriends and strangers at the store (male or female). It is the simplest of common courtesies that link us together as a consciously thoughtful race. I thank your dad for putting me in touch with your site. Dave K.

Re: Starnes Dot Com: Herding Tacocats

Janet — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:00:45 -0000

Yes! I used to have one not so long ago. I can't imaging they used to eat them, but desperate times.... yes.

Re: Starnes Dot Com: Out Of Time

thepete — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:57:57 -0000

Really? You think he's better than Neil deGrasse Tyson? I beg to differ. But hey, it's a big universe! Still, I suggest you check out Nova ScienceNow and Tyson's radio show/podcast at http://Startalk.net. I went to a Q&A last year he did at the Hayden Planetarium and he had the place eating out of the palm of his hand. I could watch his YouTube videos until the end of time and not get bored of him. OK, I'll stop gushing.

None of this means I don't like Cox. I love Cox. Er, I mean, BRIAN Cox. He's totally cool and probably does go into more "deep" concepts than Tyson generally does. But Neil manages to educate while making you feel like you were just chatting with a buddy. With Cox I feel like I'm still doing the work of learning things. If that makes sense.

Also, have you checked out the show "Through the Wormhole" hosted by Morgan Freeman? It's pretty good, too. Though, I'm watching the first season right now and it's slightly out of date because of so many recent break throughs science has had (like confirming time dilation and the parts of DNA being found in meteorites).

And did you know that they're remaking "Cosmos"? I'm not sure how I feel about that. The original is surprisingly accurate still.

Re: Starnes Dot Com: Layerspaces: A Radically Disruptive And Transformative Revolutionary New Paradigm

kurtstarnes — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:07:07 -0000

Rob: Thanks, and I'm working on a small part of it.

Re: Starnes Dot Com: Layerspaces: A Radically Disruptive And Transformative Revolutionary New Paradigm

Rob Gordon — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:55:30 -0000

Wow - now you need to be a "Thomas Edison" type to put this together. Many of the technology pieces are out there.

Re: Starnes Dot Com: Pando: Earth's Largest and Oldest Multicellular Organism

Noelle Renee — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:49:55 -0000

This is fascinating stuff Kurt. Thanks for the information. Always good to know the science behind nature's gifts.
Noelle

Re: Starnes Dot Com: Bands Formed In The 80s

cacarr — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:39:37 -0000

Strange that they included _The Jesus Lizard_ but missed _The Melvins_ (1983).

Re: Starnes Dot Com: How Facebook Enriched My Life

kurtstarnes — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:43:38 -0000

Hi Clare:

Wow, thanks for such kind and thoughtful words -- I am seriously flattered.

My Grandfather is an amazing man, indeed, and has been an example of greatness for me to *attempt* to follow.

Very Best To You,

Kurt

Re: Starnes Dot Com: How Facebook Enriched My Life

kurtstarnes — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:39:21 -0000

Hi Misty and thanks for your comment! Much appreciated.

Re: Starnes Dot Com: How Facebook Enriched My Life

writerclare — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:00:33 -0000

Kurt, It's really wonderfull that you are such a grateful person and so very optimistic. I think that I speak for all of us who enjoy your intriguing, thoughtful, funny or super informative posts and commentary when I say that we all feel just as lucky and grateful to have your acquaintance on Facebook. Keep up the great banter and factoids... because it's people like you that truly make Facebook fun. I think it's incredible too that you are blessed to have your Grandfather so close to you in life... and to also share this venue with him. He must be as inquisitive and open-minded to learning about new things and new ideas as you are to embrace this new galaxy of communications and sharing...

Re: Starnes Dot Com: How Facebook Enriched My Life

mistykhan — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:04:14 -0000

Glad your Grandfather's surgery went well, Kurt!

Re: Testing Buzz Comments WP Plug-In With Disqus

kurtstarnes — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:21:24 -0000

Chris: Thanks for pointing out the FB connect issue -- fixed now!

Louis: Looks like WP Buzz Comments is a no-go with Disqus for now.

Disqus just needs to add Buzz to the *Reactions* list of services to integrate Buzz.

I will now kill this test post.

Re: Testing Buzz Comments WP Plug-In With Disqus

Chris Twitery Loft — Tue, 04 May 2010 02:30:23 -0000

This is interesting - couldn't connect with FB though -

Re: Testing Buzz Comments WP Plug-In With Disqus

Louis Gray — Tue, 04 May 2010 02:25:47 -0000

Tease! Don't make me switch from Blogger just for this!

Re: Starnes Dot Com: Going Native In The Age Of Aggregation

kurtstarnes — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:14:36 -0000

Thank you, Mahendra. Seems we are of very similar thought on this issue. Perhaps improved tools/filters will help with the noise problem, but the proactive plan is to simply stop creating cross-network noise.

In a perfect world, everyone could do whatever they wanted and each of us could filter the flow with precision.

Re: Starnes Dot Com: Going Native In The Age Of Aggregation

kurtstarnes — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:10:40 -0000

Thanks for your comment and thoughts, Alcarcalimo.

I like the humanize angle. :-)

Re: Starnes Dot Com: Going Native In The Age Of Aggregation

How social networks ought to w — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:02:45 -0000

[...] The friendfeed solution of imaginary friends solves only one side of the problem (and not very well). In order to pull in friends, you still need to join networks. In a way, it would be better if we were back in the era before social networks and everyone added their content to blogs (as I am doing now). There’s another related issue that there is a certain meaning to the communities in which our friends “live”. In writing, they have in mind their network of people that cohabit their social network. Kurt Starnes talks about this in a recent blog post “Going native in the age of aggregation“. [...]

Re: Starnes Dot Com: Going Native In The Age Of Aggregation

Mahendra — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:23:55 -0000

Kurt, thanks - I like your decision because it helps alleviate the noise problem. I've written about this specific auto-sharing trend and the problems it creates in my post: http://www.skepticgeek.com/...

Re: Starnes Dot Com: Going Native In The Age Of Aggregation

Rob Sanchez — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:27:31 -0000

It's great to know that someone has decided to "humanize" the social network sharing process. I've decided to make my process a bit more personal as well by taking into consideration what most of my audiences like to read from me in a particular social network. I'm calling it Niche Sharing.

Thanks for this thought provoking post!

Re: Starnes Dot Com: Google Buzz Blogging Is Real Real-Time

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Re: Starnes Dot Com: Google Buzz Blogging Is Real Real-Time

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Re: Starnes Dot Com: Google Buzz Blogging Is Real Real-Time

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